The Age of Inner Earthquakes

It doesn’t start with a diagnosis. Or a divorce. Or the moment you realize your pension plan is a polite fiction. It starts with something quieter. A tremor. A sense that the life you’ve built — dutifully, diligently — is no longer yours. That you’ve been living on autopilot, and the GPS is broken.

This is the terrain Dr. Andrew Cort knows intimately. Not as a guru dispensing enlightenment from a mountaintop, but as a man who’s walked through the fire of chronic illness, spiritual disillusionment, and the slow, necessary death of certainty. His conversation with Philipp Kobald on Spiritual Conversation isn’t a sermon. It’s a reckoning.

And it’s exactly what this generation of seekers — those who are done with spiritual performance art and hungry for something real — has been waiting for.

Stress Is the Symptom. Disconnection Is the Disease.

Cort began his healing career in 1980s Manhattan, back when stress was still considered a badge of honor. But what he sees now is different. “Life is just desperate and overwhelming for so many people,” he says. Not because we’re weaker — but because we’re more disconnected than ever.

Disconnected from our bodies. From each other. From the sacred. From the simple, radical truth that we are not machines to be optimized, but beings to be remembered.

The modern world, Cort argues, has become a factory of fragmentation. We scroll instead of speak. We medicate instead of mourn. We chase abundance while believing in scarcity. And we wonder why we’re exhausted.

The Myth of the Fix

Here’s the part that might sting: healing isn’t about fixing what’s broken. It’s about unlearning the belief that you were broken in the first place.

Cort’s work — whether hands-on or through a screen — isn’t about symptom management. It’s about soul retrieval. He guides people into deep states of relaxation, not to escape reality, but to meet it without the armor. To find the subconscious beliefs that have been running the show since childhood — and gently, persistently, rewrite the script.

“Whatever you believe you are going to get in the world is what you get.” — Dr. Andrew Cort

This isn’t The Secret repackaged. It’s not about manifesting a yacht. It’s about reclaiming authorship of your life. And that starts with a radical act: listening.

The Sacred Science of Letting Go

Cort’s book, Create Yourself Anew: From Above Down, doesn’t begin with affirmations or vision boards. It begins with mindset. Not the kind you can fake with a sticky note on your mirror — but the kind that emerges when you finally stop negotiating with your pain.

He teaches that before you can build the life you want, you have to clear the rubble. The inherited beliefs. The internalized scarcity. The voice that says, “This is just how it is.” That voice, he suggests, isn’t you. It’s a clown in costume. And it’s time to laugh it off the stage.

This is where Cort’s irreverence shines. He borrows from Harry Potter’s boggart spell — turning fear into farce. Imagine your inner critic in a tutu. Give your shame a squeaky nose. Humor, he insists, is holy. It disarms the ego and invites grace in through the back door.

Healing Is Not a Solo Sport

One of the most poignant threads in the conversation is the loss of real human contact. Cort laments the decline of touch, of presence, of the simple act of being with another person without a screen between you. “Now we don’t hug people for even two seconds because they’re on a screen,” he notes.

And yet, he’s not a purist. He’s adapted his work to Zoom, not because it’s ideal, but because it’s necessary. “If there’s no such thing as space,” he reflects, “there’s no such thing as distance.” Healing, then, is not about proximity. It’s about presence.

Still, the deeper truth remains: we are relational beings. We heal in connection. In community. In the sacred mess of being seen.

The Divine Is Not a Lifestyle Brand

Cort’s spirituality is refreshingly unmarketable. He speaks of God not as a cosmic vending machine, but as the sacred oneness we’re all part of. “You are a magnificent, sacred, perfect-as-you-are, extraordinary and powerful being,” he writes — not because it sounds good on a mug, but because it’s the only foundation sturdy enough to build a life on.

This isn’t about bypassing pain. It’s about honoring it. Letting it teach you. Letting it break the shell of who you thought you had to be.

And then — slowly, gently — letting something truer emerge.

The Real Work Begins After the Breakdown

Cort’s clients are often in their fifties, sixties, and seventies. They’ve done the career. Raised the kids. Played by the rules. And now, as the pension looms and the noise quiets, the real questions surface.

Who am I without the roles? What do I believe now that the old answers don’t fit? What does it mean to live — not just survive?

These aren’t midlife crises. They’re spiritual initiations. And they’re not just for the aging. They’re for anyone who’s realized that the life they were sold isn’t the life they want.

Final Reflection: You Don’t Need to Be Saved. You Need to Be Seen.

There’s a moment in the conversation when Cort reflects on the future. He doesn’t sugarcoat it. The world is in crisis. But he’s not without hope.

“We won’t be able to save civilization,” he says, “until we realize that everyone and everything is one.”

It’s not a slogan. It’s a spiritual law. And it starts with you. Not fixing yourself. Not transcending your humanity. But remembering — deep in your bones — that you are already whole.

And maybe, just maybe, that’s enough to begin again.

Guest Bio:
Dr. Andrew Cort is a former chiropractor and author whose healing work integrates energy therapy, deep relaxation, and subconscious reprogramming to help clients release limiting beliefs and create lives of joy, health, and abundance.

Watch the full episode on the @HolisticCircle YouTube channel.

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